Hearing this, not only Hao Qian, Han Yao and Han Lu were all stunned, but Hao Fugui and Han Chengren's faces changed drastically.

"No, no!" Hao Fugui fell to his knees with a plop. "Mr. Zhan, how can we go to a place like that? Please spare them, mother and daughter!"

Hao Qian was horrified, "Mr. Zhan, I won't go to that kind of place!"

Han Yao and Han Lu were shaking with fear and almost fainted, crying, "I won't go! I won't go there!"

"Huh! So you also know that you can't go to that kind of place?" Zhan Shiche sneered. He has a daughter, so if he puts himself in his shoes, if anyone dares to go after his daughter, he will definitely hack that person to death and cut him into pieces.

He was just thankful that Gu Ye didn't know that Hao Fugui and Hao Qian had contacted a brothel in the south and were planning to kidnap Jiang Yue and sell her to that kind of place. Otherwise, Hao Fugui and Hao Qian would definitely not live until tomorrow morning, and even their Zhan family would be affected by Gu Ye's anger.

"Your daughter and granddaughter are human beings, but other people's daughters are not human beings?" The people from the Zhan family present looked at Hao Fugui and his companions with cold eyes full of disgust.

Since ancient times, forcing women of good character into prostitution has been the most despicable thing!

It was these few people who, under the banner of their Zhan family, had been bullying others in Jiang Province for more than 20 years, and they were all kept in the dark.

The reason why they all came this time was because the nature of this matter was quite serious. No one had reported it. Once someone did, the Zhan family would definitely be implicated just because Hao Fugui enjoyed privileges in the provincial capital of Jiang Province.

Such a scandal broke out not long after the conference began. Given the character of the current top leader, he absolutely cannot tolerate such a thing. Once it is exposed, it will be an absolute devastating blow to the political life of the Zhan family.

More than 20 years have passed. The bad things done by Hao Fugui and Hao Qian are not just superficial things like bullying the weak and forcing women of good families into prostitution. The Zhan family has been getting more and more frightened the more they investigate these days. Just what they know now is enough to scare them.

Now they not only have to deal with Hao Fugui's family, but also have to clean up the mess in the provincial capital of Jiang Province. They must handle it properly, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

At the same time, Jiang Yue and Gu Ye's car had left the sight of Zhan Shiqing and others. She had caught a glimpse of the two wooden boxes on the back seat when she got in the car, but because Zhan Shiqing was a big leader and she was the granddaughter-in-law or daughter-in-law of a bigger leader, she couldn't embarrass the Gu family in front of outsiders, so she suppressed her curiosity.

Finally, when the Zhan family's group was no longer visible, Jiang Yue couldn't help asking Gu Ye: "Gu Ye, have you seen what's in the box? It's not cash, is it?"

Gu Ye glanced at Jiang Yue's bright eyes and said with a smile: "These two boxes can only hold tens of thousands of yuan at most!"

"That's right!" Jiang Yue tilted her head to look at the box on the back seat, wondering what the Zhan family had found from the Hao family in such a short time that they sent it to her in such a hurry.

In any case, it definitely isn't cash. The largest denomination of cash nowadays is ten yuan. Tens of thousands of yuan would have to be packed in a sack, and such a square box definitely can't hold them all.

"Want to know? Why not just open it and take a look?" Gu Ye pulled the car over to the side of the road, stood up, and with a stride of his long legs, he crossed over to the back seat.

He reached out to take the box, but felt it was too heavy. It was Zhan Shiqing's followers who had carried the box and put it on the car. When he saw their movements, he felt that the box must not be light.

Gu Ye frowned slightly, but he actually already had a premonition in his heart.

"Open it quickly and let me take a look!" Jiang Yue was extremely anxious when she saw Gu Ye suddenly stop moving.

Gu Ye glanced at Jiang Yue, and opened the box at Jiang Yue's urging.

"Ouch!" Jiang Yue subconsciously covered her eyes with her hands. What was that? It was so bright yellow and dazzling.

Huh? Yellow?

"gold!"

Jiang Yue quickly put down his hand, his eyes suddenly widened, his face full of shock, the box was actually full of gold bars!

"Where's the other box? Could it also contain gold bars?" Jiang Yue's heart beat faster.

Gu Ye then opened another box, and sure enough, it was still filled with small yellow croakers.

"Gu Ye, this, this..." Jiang Yue met Gu Ye's gaze. She stuttered for a moment and really didn't know what to say.

It was true that she was asking Hao Fugui for one million, but she did not expect Hao Fugui to give it all at once. After all, one million was indeed an astronomical figure in that era. She had planned for Hao Fugui to give out a part of it first and then collect it in batches later.

However, what Jiang Yue did not expect was that the Zhan family only went to Hao Fugui's house once and sent two boxes of small yellow croakers. They looked neatly stacked, and there were at least 70 or 80 small yellow croakers in the two boxes, if not more than 100.

One small yellow croaker weighs about 30 grams. If there are 100 small yellow croakers, that would be 3 kilograms, 3 kilograms of gold!

Although according to the current gold price, these three kilograms of gold are worth about 100,000 yuan, which is far from one million yuan, but the fact that Hao Fugui has so many small yellow croakers at home is shocking enough.

"Uncle Zhan said that he knew we were going back, so he would give us some interest first, and the big payout is still to come!" Gu Ye said.

"Gu Ye, did we disturb the nest of small yellow croakers?" Jiang Yue scratched her face. Not long ago, she and Gu Ye dug out more than a dozen small yellow croakers from the Huanghuali Eight Immortals Table they bought from the scrap yard. Not long after that, they harvested two boxes more.

"Isn't it good to poke the small yellow croaker's nest? Maybe there will be more in a few days!" Gu Ye laughed at Jiang Yue's fuss, "The Zhan family has only found Hao Fugui's house so far, and they haven't found Hao Qian's house yet. And it is said that Hao Fugui has more than one property in the provincial capital!"

"And their bank accounts haven't been checked yet—"

Jiang Yue: “…”

So how much wealth has Hao Fugui amassed over the years?

Jiang Yue wanted to ask Gu Ye, if he did not have this identity, if he did not know anyone from the Zhan family, when facing Hao Fugui's bullying, would he have any way to break Hao Fugui's illusion of a pseudo-privileged class.

But Jiang Yue changed his mind and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

In fact, based on her understanding of Gu Ye, even if Gu Ye was just an ordinary person, he would never succumb to Hao Fugui's tyranny, and he would definitely resist to the end.

Regardless of the outcome, Gu Ye's character alone is not the type to swallow his anger!

Jiang Yue could imagine that even if Gu Ye, as an ordinary person, could not break Hao Fugui's false privileges, he would eventually fight to the death and make sure that Hao Fugui's people would suffer at least some loss of life.

When they were halfway back, it was snowing heavily. Gu Ye didn't dare to drive fast, but he was also afraid that if he drove too slowly, Jiang Yue would be cold in the car. He took off his military coat to keep Jiang Yue warm, but Jiang Yue refused.

"I'm not cold! You wear it and don't catch a cold!" Jiang Yue was actually fine. The down jacket was very warm. Her hands and feet were just cold, especially her feet, which were almost frozen into ice.

But she didn't want to make Gu Ye worry, so she didn't plan to tell him.

They set out from the provincial capital at around 3:00 p.m., but because the heavy snow and slippery roads obscured their vision, the car drove very slowly, and the two did not return to the family compound until 9:00 p.m.

The journey that was supposed to take more than two hours took nearly five hours.

The family compound was already covered in white.